Notices by Dad (geekanddad@mastodon.social)

@sinbad So many weird things with resonance and whatnot that sometimes just changing the rpm by a little changes things in significant ways from my ear’s perspective. Might be worth a try. Glad to hear you improved it with placement. Machine whines are not happy things.

@sinbad Can you control the fan speeds any and just reduce them by 10% or something?

@br00t4c @jackbrewster I’m getting a different article about a guy living in world of warcraft? Nothing about a song…. So weird!

@sinbad Excellent! I insulated our attic to R30 but after talking to a neighbor who put in R60, I’m going to upgrade. Their house definitely is warmer in winter and cooler in summer :)

I think you have to count the heat generated by your cats though, given how active they seem to be :)

@thomasfuchs @toba Are you interested in counter thoughts on this? Asking because I drafted a lengthy reply but then realized you might not be interested and thus it might be annoying (which I have no interest in being).

@inthehands Looks cool. Why don’t you use it for your regular workflow, if you don’t mind me asking?

@jrose @Catfish_Man I found this a bit chilling when extrapolated to society as a whole. Due to a year+ of fairly intense interaction with the US medical system (two hospitals, ER departments, medical clinics, etc) I know the medical system has been squeezed for profit so much that it has little redundancy and limited resilience. How many other systems in society has been squeezed by profit maximizing to become brittle and vulnerable? 🤔

@Catfish_Man Not that I remember.

Quick search found this:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15805459/

And this post that talks about it and provides some context:

https://ferd.ca/notes/paper-going-solid.html

Neither of which I’ve read yet, but I will.

If you have a better thing to read on it, sure, I’d like to see it.

Thank you.

@inthehands Reed College professors assigned grades so you have a transcript and can apply to graduate school, but as long as you’re passing your classes you don’t see your grades until you apply to graduate school or make an effort to go check (which is generally lightly discouraged). An effort is made to help transition students to intrinsic motivation - I’m interested in this subject and like learning - from the overly extrinsic motivation regimen in elementary and high school.

@inthehands This is very freeing for many. Uncomfortable for those who’ve bought into maximizing the external measure.

Downside: It can hurt people who want to go to graduate school but who listen to the “don’t think about grades” guidance and don’t think about the need to do well to get in to graduate school.

@thomasfuchs That Quadra 700…. Still regret giving away the two I had when we sold our farm, but… lack the space for such things...